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<p>Resumen:</p><p>Al emplear la novela <i>The Odd Women</i> (1893) de George Gissing como lente critica para acercarse a <i>Tristana</i> (1892), este ensayo considera la estrecha relación entre emancipación femenina, enfermedad y discapacidad en la novela de Benito Pérez Galdós. A través de diálogos con estudios de la discapacidad, compara el personaje de Tristana con Rhoda Nunn, la protagonista <i>Mujer Nueva</i> de la novela realista de Gissing. Rhoda, como mujer fÃsicamente capacitada, supera discursos de degeneración que intentan masculinizarla mientras que Tristana internaliza su propia deshumanización por parte de la sociedad a causa de su discapacidad. El ensayo también demuestra, al recurrir a textos médicos contemporáneos, que los deseos de independencia económica de Tristana inscriben en su cuerpo el discurso enfermizo de histeria mucho antes de la amputación de su pierna.</p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This essay treats George Gissing's <i>The Odd Women</i> (1893) as a critical lens through which to reconsider the inextricable relationship between female emancipation, illness and disability in Benito Pérez Galdós's novel, <i>Tristana</i> (1892). In dialogue with disability studies, the essay reads Tristana against Rhoda Nunn, the New Woman heroine of Gissing's realist novel. Where the able-bodied Rhoda's strong sense of vocation enables her to transcend masculinizing discourses of degeneracy, Tristana's disability leads to the internalization of her own objectification. Through recourse to contemporary medical and social texts, this essay further demonstrates that Tristana's determined pursuit of financial independence inscribes her body with discourses of hysteric disease, well before the amputation of her leg.</p>
Anales Galdosianos – Anales Galdosianos
Published: Dec 22, 2017
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